Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Go! Solutions Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck Swap Remove
• 02 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
• 03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove

Three Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.

	01 Go! Solutions Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck Swap Remove	02 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck 26.7%	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4% Best in this row	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. iEstimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag.	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck 48% 43.5% as fed	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% as fed Best in this row	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% as fed
03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. iThe count matches any named animal word in the opening five ingredients, so it also counts animal fats and flavourings as proteins. It is shown because it is one of the five measured lines, but it is too rough to call a winner on.	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck 2 of 5	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck None	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck None Best in this row	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None Best in this row	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years
Starch, As Fed iEstimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag.	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck 43.5%	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck 439	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck $4.25 22 lb bag, Amazon	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.
Cost / 1,000 Kcal Lower Is Cheaper To Feed What the same amount of energy costs, so a denser food is not penalized for a higher price per pound.	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck $2.35 Best in this row	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Sensitivities Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Duck De-boned duck, duck meal, peas, lentils, tapioca	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp

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Every figure here is the food's own. Protein and carbohydrate are converted to dry matter so foods of different moisture can be set beside each other; starch is estimated from the guaranteed analysis with ash assumed at 6.0%, and the recall record belongs to the manufacturer rather than to the recipe. Two rows are printed but never marked: the named-protein count, because the detection behind it is too rough to call a winner on, and calories, because neither more nor fewer is better without knowing the dog.